Tbilisi Bokeria hospital sues former nurse for anti-vaccine campaign

Tbilisi Ivane Bokeria State University Hospital is suing a former male nurse for an anti-coronavirus campaign on social media, using the hospital’s name and logo. 

Bokeria hospital says that the nurse’s anti-vaccine videos in social media ‘damaged the hospital’s reputation and put people’s health at risk.’ 

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Generally, people trust the information more easily which is released using the hospital’s name. What our former employee has done was misleading, harmful to the hospital’s image and public health,” said the hospital administration.

The nurse released an anti-vaccine video on social media on July 28 and was shortly dismissed from the hospital. 

Georgia has reported 5,697 new cases of coronavirus out of 44,536 tests and 54 deaths in the past 24 hours which is a record high figure since January 2021. 

641,242 individuals have received the coronavirus vaccine in Georgia with 3.7 million population since March 2021, while 197,118 have received their both doses of the vaccine. 

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Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze stated earlier today that ‘new infections are dramatically surging’ and that the coronavirus situation ‘is really alarming.’